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Google village seems
like an empty promise
Re. “Google rethinks timeline for village,” Page A1, Feb. 14:
Google’s Downtown West Village delay is the Redevelopment Agency 2.0. Make unrealistic promises, force out existing businesses, clear the land and then stop. Just like downtown San Jose, beginning in the 1960s, there will be blocks of empty land for years, if not, decades. At least there will be ample parking for events at SAP.
Also, can we stop using the term “village” for densely packed urban areas? Like San Jose’s Urban Villages, which really amounted to nothing,